On December 16th, 1998, US President William J. Clinton ordered a surprise attack on Iraq which the US military dubbed: "Operation Desert Fox." Over the course of four days, missiles and bombs launched from hundreds of aircrafts and sea vessels rained down on Iraq. Clinton ordered this attack on the eve preceding a scheduled vote to impeach him by the US House Of Representatives. The attack forced the representatives to delay their vote; however, several of them, and several senators as well, refused to back Clinton's deployment of military force in this instance because of its suspicious timing.

That's almost exactly 21 years ago. And back then...

As the news of Desert Fox began to circulate through the media on December 16th, Charles Rice Goff III felt frustrated and angry. He channeled his anger through sound. Using audio mixers, he pumped several feeds of live television reports into a four-track cassette deck, distorting the various spewings of facts, opinions, rationalizations, and advertising sponsorships with sound effects and on-the-fly editing. For much of the night, Goff improvised an angry collage over this bed of media noise, injecting it with a distorted electronic guitar, a Micromoog synthesizer, and a number of oddly-played phonograph records. In early 1999, Goff culled out an hour from this recorded audio tantrum and released it on the Taped Rugs cassette album: "Desert Foxtrot."

The contents of this cassette album might be of interest right now, considering recent developments. The curious are invited to hear:
1 Saddam Votes For Impeachment
2 Rationalizing Bloody Gore

It seems that history repeats itself (one way or another the history is always the same). Your work is actual again .... your work is always great.

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Swami L.

1/7/2020 00:06:56

Thanks for tuning in Rafael. Yes, there's just way too much of this sort of deadly repetition... I've watched the leaders of my country do everything they can to bully around the rest of the world with their guns ever since I was a little kid. If we really lived in a "democratic" "free" society, our citizens themselves would be the ones to decide if regularly killing people in the name of "freedom" was the best way to spend their tax money (and all the money that the US has to borrow to maintain all the killing). I'm due for another art tantrum right now, since my opinion itself has so little effect on this stupid cycle of behavior.

my thoughts exactly! The minute I heard that Trump had bombed something in Iran, those mental wheels started turning... Trump feels vulnerable in 2020! Impeachment giant pain in ass! Must Start War! Thankfully it appears that Iran wants to play the adult role in the current "crisis".

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I am one of the several alter-egos of Charles Rice Goff III. I am best known as a radio host, although I have had some of my reviews published here and there over the years, and have even been involved in occasional recording projects. Listen to:Deprogramming Center Radio

Charles Rice Goff III /Taped Rugs Productions​Lots of free original recordings, videos, literature, interviews, etc., dating from today back into the 1970's. Loads of 20th Century relics of the "Cassette Culture" days. Collaborations with 100's of artists. Music from the groups: -Ing, Disism, Herd Of The Ether Space, Turkey Makes Me Sleepy.

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